TALK: “A Virile and Meaningful Democratic Left?” Making Sense of Political Ideology in California in the Post-World War II Era
Jonathan Bell (History, University of Reading, UK)
Friday, May 4 / 1:00 PM / HSSB 4041
Jonathan Bell, lecturer in history at the University of Reading, considers the historical possibility that post World War II California might well have been a laboratory for an American version of European social democracy. As a student of the activist California Democratic Council, Bell studies the politicians, both amateur and professional, who linked New Deal impulses to Great Society statecraft.
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy and the Policy History Program
